You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.